1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,600 This is Hacker Public Radio episode 3,912 for Tuesday, the first of August 2023. 2 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:20,600 Today's show is entitled, Emergency Show, Bill Tong and Rubeo's. 3 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:25,320 It is hosted by Shane Shannon and is about four minutes long. 4 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,960 It carries a clean flag. 5 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:40,600 The summary is, Shane brings us a taste of South Africa with some local tea and jerky. 6 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:45,720 You are listening to a show from 2018 that was posted to the Reserve Q. 7 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:50,800 We are airing it now because we had free slots that were not filled. 8 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:54,400 Please consider recording a show for Hacker Public Radio. 9 00:00:54,440 --> 00:01:00,080 The project will stop if the listeners do not continue to contribute shows. 10 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:07,760 Hacker Public Radio audience, this is Shane Shannon, speaking from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. 11 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:13,880 And I think this will be an evergreen episode, number one because I don't have much to say. 12 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:20,720 And what I say today won't change probably in a hundred years, oh, here we go. 13 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:25,680 I'm trying to stick this episode in the emergency shows so that it can be used whenever. 14 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:31,440 And because it will be an evergreen topic, it should suit just fine. 15 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:38,640 So I come originally from South Africa and I was born to two English speakers in South Africa. 16 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,760 But my parents knew Afrikaans and they knew some Afrikaans culture as well. 17 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:48,840 So I'm going to talk about two foods that I think come from the Afrikaans culture. 18 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:56,520 The first autocobode is a tea at Nervylti from South Africa, from some kind of red bush. 19 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:02,360 And it's called Roybus, R-O-O-I-B-O-S. 20 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:13,160 And it's a flavorful tea, but it's very light with opium glands. 21 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:18,640 If I was going to compare to anything else, say it would have the likeness of something 22 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:25,320 flavored with vanilla, when you're not overdoing it. 23 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:32,000 Maybe the best word to describe Roybus is to call it mild. 24 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:37,800 And here in Canada you can get the tea bags for Roybus, almost in any grocery store. 25 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,120 I hope you can find it in the area you're in. 26 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:46,800 If you use one something with ole caffeine in it, I believe this has no caffeine. 27 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:53,800 Roybus or Roybus, very mild, you get still flavorful. 28 00:02:53,800 --> 00:03:00,960 And second South African thing that I want to talk about is a treat called 29 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:05,360 Filton, B-I-L-T-O-N-G. 30 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:11,680 So this is strips of meat that have been assaulted and spiced and then left to dry. 31 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:20,120 So to very South African thing, they would do this when the weather was the hottest I think. 32 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:30,800 And that's how the meat is preserved by drying and not by smoking or anything like that. 33 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:38,800 So my father still attempts to make it, he dries it in a warm shed that he has. 34 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:44,880 So I still get to build on even though I haven't been back to South Africa since I was five years old. 35 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:50,520 It's kind of like a beef jerky except because of the variety of spices. 36 00:03:50,520 --> 00:04:01,120 I find it a bit more flavorful and I think it may even be a little bit tougher to chew. 37 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:06,240 So that's it, two South African things, even though here I am living in Canada. 38 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:10,960 These are the only parts of my South African heritage that I actually know about. 39 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:19,760 Roy Busch T, R-O-O-I-B-O-S, and Bill Tongue, B-I-L-T-O-N-G. 40 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:23,440 Okay, thank you, Hacker Public Radio audience. 41 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:31,240 Why don't you tell me about some foods or teas or snacks or smoked meats from your culture? 42 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,400 Do a show about it, goodbye for now. 43 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:41,360 You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public Radio.org. 44 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,520 Today's show was contributed by a H-B-R-Lisnet like yourself, 45 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,320 if you ever thought of recording podcasts, 46 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:52,960 you click on our contribute link to find out how easy it means. 47 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:58,400 Hosting for H-B-R has been kindly provided by an onsthost.com, 48 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,600 the internet archive and our synced.net. 49 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:06,480 On this otherwise stages, today's show is released on our Creative Commons, 50 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:13,760 attribution for point-o international license.